Broccoli was one of the foods that I had a mild reaction to back when I did my food allergy testing, so I mostly stopped eating it, and it turns out once you stop eating it, you kind of lose the ability to digest it well.

Wouldn't it work out better to roast vegetables that actually have flavor before they're roasted?

I am all out of cruciforms. But I made chopped liver in the crock pot today and I'm very pleased with how it came out. Which is good, because even though it doesn't look like very much, the amount I had for dinner barely made a dent so I guess I will be eating it for a while.

It's one of the few vegetables that's actually palatable.

That's just crazy talk. I'll take all your vegetables, and your tomatoes, too.

Oh, my god, I'm tired. I was already exhausted, but then I decided to take the stairs down 10 flights because I haven't been to the gym all week due to snowmageddon. Then I went to the grocery, and while I was carrying heavy shopping, I couldn't sit down on the L because it was too crowded, and had to hike over huge piles of snow because plenty of sidewalk hadn't been shoveled.

Not exactly up hill both ways in the snow, but definitely up snow hills both ways in the cold.

I think you get to use the uphill both ways in the snow argument, shrift.

I love that talking to Devi in her sleep results in sleep purring. She's still my baby girlcat.

I've not run into the problem of bad smells from cooked broccoli. Well, not in the first few hours after eating it, anyway...

Wouldn't it work out better to roast vegetables that actually have flavor before they're roasted?

Roasting caramelizes the sugars and brings out a lot more flavor.

I *just* remembered they haven't refilled the prescription I called in on Monday.

I went to CVS today to pick up a migraine med refill that *should* have been called in on Monday. I came without it, because (1) doctor's office didn't call it in, and (2) the drug -- and its generic -- is not made anymore. FML.

(It's an old drug -- Midrin -- because I'm trying to avoid triptans for as long as possible, since one of the potential side effects can be heart stuff, and I just worry that I have a greater than average chance of heart problems, so I don't want to up the chances if I don't have to. So for now, they're switching me to another old drug, Fioricet.)

But DAMN. Why they gotta stop manufacturing a drug???

Obligatory post where I tell new parents to throw their baby's first laugh party!

Zoya: On the list. Fedex: On the list. I specifically negotiated Fedex shipping when I placed the order. On my shipping address I added a second line that says NO US MAIL. In asscaps. They ship it: Fedex "Smartpost" which means it gets to my town, and then goes to the post office. Where it's been since Tuesday. But it will never get to me because the post office does not deliver mail to me. This is not my fault! I tried to get them to deliver mail to me! They declined! Woes.

But in good news, I got my Kona coffee in. Nom.

OH! And I think my furnace is working! When I was out hauling wood, I saw steam coming from the furnace vent pipe. And when I came in, it was 71 in the front room and 68 in the back (north side). Which is higher than it's been getting with the woodstove alone. So I think it's working!

We still have to resolve the last of the power issue. But we are making progress!

They stopped making Midrin? WOE!

Bad Zoya and bad FedEx!